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Mapping In The Humanities: Gis Lessons For Poets, Historians, And Scientists, Emily W. Fairey
Mapping In The Humanities: Gis Lessons For Poets, Historians, And Scientists, Emily W. Fairey
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User-friendly Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is the common thread of this collection of presentations, and activities with full lesson plans. The first section of the site contains an overview of cartography, the art of creating maps, and then looks at historical mapping platforms like Hypercities and Donald Rumsey Historical Mapping Project. In the next section Google Earth Desktop Pro is introduced, with lessons and activities on the basics of GE such as pins, paths, and kml files, as well as a more complex activity on "georeferencing" an historic map over Google Earth imagery. The final section deals with ARCGIS Online …
Nimby: Not In My Backyard, Ariama Long
Nimby: Not In My Backyard, Ariama Long
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Ariama Long talks to residents in Flatbush, Brooklyn who are clashing with developers over a hotel that houses homeless people. A hotel development has seemingly split the neighborhood. It’s community versus developer and neighbor versus neighbor.